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california's largest wildfire explodes, tearing through ndams toramble is tha int inpil assault, a new committee prepares for its first hearing on the deadly january 6 attack. breakionsaq. d tiderisis,hacaing the toxic algae, as thousands of dead fish wash ashore along the mean for your next flight? and a life-changing invention designed by high school students to help their teacher. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening, to our viewers in the west and thank you so much for joining us. we're going to begin with the new push to get more americans vaccinated as the nation's top

infectious disease doctor warns the u.s. is moving in the wrong direction. now local governments are taking matters into their own hands. we actually learned today new york city will require all 400,000 city workers to getshot, and california will begin checking proof of vaccination for all of their state employees. and then the department of veterans affairs became the first federal agency to require vaccinations for its healthcare workers. and there is some positive news, vaccinations are up nearly 14% in the last week, meaning the message that the shots could help stop the spread of the highly contagious delta variant might be working. we have team coverage of the pandemic. cbs' david begnaud is in hard- hit mississippi, but cbs' manuel bojorquez is going to lead us up a from florida, which now leads the country in new infections. good evening, manny. >> reporter: good evening, norah. the university of florida health system here in jacksonville is seeing more covid-19 patients now than at any other time

during the pandemic. at one point last month, they had only 14 covid-positive patients. now there are 178, more than 90% are unvaccinated, and doctors fear we may not see the peak of this surge until september. 62-year-old cu s d ythecoo >> no, sir. >> rorter: is ere a reasonwhy y- >> i haven't decided not to get it, i just haven't, you know-- i have been contained. >> reporter: you haven't gotten around to it? anne out of eve five new covid cases in 6 one week >> we're going in the wrong direction. if you look at the inflection of

the curve of new cases it'prpl e cases. >> reporter: today a groundbreaking question from the president, the lingering impacts from covid including brain fog and chronic pain are now covered under the americans with disabilities act. meanwhile, pfizer and moderna are both weighing expanding the size of their vaccine studies in kids as young as five, recommendatisevorhe unvaccinate. today more than 50 health organizations including the american medical association and the american academy of pediatrics, are now calling for all healthcare workers to be required to be vaccinated. back here at the university of florida health system in jacksonville, only 50% of all workers are fully vaccinated. chad nielsen is director of infection prevention. >> they consume the same news, they consume the same social media as others and are just as susceptible to some of the misinformation and things likes that in the communities. >> reporter: but the surge, fueled by the more contagious delta variant, is not just affecting the unvaccinated.

>> elective surgeries are already being paused at our institution and across the city so we're literally putting off medical procedures people do need because our hospital is filled with unvaccinated people. >> reporter: like curtis sanderlin, who now has this message for the vaccine hesitant: >> take it. take it. dqu,cbs ws, jail. >> reporter: i'm david begnaud in jackson, mississippi. 89% of the hospitalized covid pati ststewide are not vaccinated. 27-year-old nathan is one of them. >> i thought maybe that since i didn't have any underlying conditions that it wasn't as big a risk to me. >> reporter: nathan is married and has a three-year-old. he says he got infected at work. did you have buddies before you got sick that thought the virus was a joke or not a big deal? you know, everybody says it's

kind of like a, a cold, but this is a little more than a cold that i got. >> reporter: he says he and his wife were vaccine hesitant because of concerns about infertility, but now he says he wants the vaccine. >> i will be after this as soon as i can. >> reporter: currently, there is no indication that the vaccines cause infertility, and tonight nathan's wife told us she spoke with her doctor and now she wants the vaccine, too. >> we had no idea. >> reporter: this is william ball. william had a heart attack on june 29. nine days later he contracted covid. today, he is bedridden. aliceia is his wife. how badly has covid ravaged his body? >> extremely bad. he can't even get up. he can sit up on the side of the bed for a minute and a half. that's it. and this is the rock of our family, this is the love of my life and rlled >> reporter: william, who also has diabetes, was not vaccinated.

>> he will get the vaccine when he gets out of the hospital. >> reporter: tell me what you were thinking when he said he wants the vaccine. >> he's got to get out of the hospital first. >> reporter: william got infected when he went to his church pastor's funeral. him and she said "it's been such a bad day he hasn't been able to say three words to me." norah. >> o'donnell: david begnaud, just incredible reporting and interviews, thank you. we turn now to the summer olympics. tonight china leads the overall medal count with 18 followed by the u.s. with 14. so far team usa is being led by american swimmers who have won eight medals, but not all gold as simone biles admits the pressure is getting to her ahead of the women's people final. cbs' jamie yuccas is in tokyo. >> reporter: tonight, there is growing concern team u.s.a. might be losing its way. the star-studded men's basketball team suffered a

stunning 7-point defeat to france, its first loss since 2004. dan wolken covers basketball for "u.s.a. today." >> it's frustrating because they should be better than this. >> reporter: katie ladecki, who won four gold medals in 2016 settled for silver in the 400- meter freestyle losing to australia's ariarne titmus. >> it's never an easy journey to the podium so it's not something i take for granted being up there. >> reporter: even u.s.a. gymnastics is feeling the pressure, finishing second to the russians in the qualifying round for the first time in more than a decade. simone biles writing, "i truly do feel like i have the weight of the world on my shoulders." when you look at team u.s.a., do we have a problem? >> we'll have to see as we go along. it's still very, very early in this process. >> the italians are going to be left behind by the united states who are going to put away another gold medal! >> reporter: but there were some bright spots, among them gold

for the men's relay, keeping caeleb dressel's dream of seven medals alive. a typhoon-turned-tropical storm tracking north of tokyo postponed several events while covid cases mount with at least 153 positive tests connected to the games now, including spain's golf superstar jon rahm. rebound in competition in the their own., they're down onof mykayla skinner, the squad's oldest member is heading home after failing to qualify for an events final. she says o it was her first olympics. norah. >> o'donnell: jamie yuccas, thank you. and now this, california's largest wildfireinilre eations the dixie fire doubled in size less than a week and is one of 86 blazes burning out west. cbs' carter evans reports from crescet mills, california. >> reporter: the dixie fire tore

through the community of indian falls, overwhelming firefighters struggling to save homes, the flames leaving behind torched cars and reducing houses to rubble. it's where elizabeth catterson us >> it was devastating. combining with another fire.is it's burned more than 200,000 acres. nearly 5,500 firefighters are working to contain the flames amid dangerous conditions with thick smoke. can you describe to me what it looks like when you're driving into the fire? >> similar to a blizzard where you could see maybe 20-30 feet in front of your head lights at times. >> reporter: it's one of 86 raging wildfires being fueled by extreme heat and intense drought compounded by climate change. firefighters talk about spot actually how the flames are advancing right now. you can see the embers, they fly off and launch themselves into

the trees up there and start new fires. in oregon, the largest fire in the country, the bootleg fire, has burned more than 400,000 acres, an area larger than the size of los angeles. and the tamarack fire that has now spread to nevada isn't expected to be contained until the end of next month. now, thousands of people are still under evacuation and, sadly, some of them are going to have nothing left to come home to. firefighters did try to save these homes. you can tell they were here by the burned-up hoses they left behind. norah. >> o'donnell: carter evans, thank you so much. well, tonight, another heat wave is set to broil much of the country. 35 million americans under heat alerts from montana to mississippi. tens of thousands without power in michigan as several tornadoes touched down in detroit and flint saturday. in utah eight people including four children killed in a 22 vehicle pileup sunday during a

selectchool committee will launch its investigation into the deadly january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol. the hearing promises to be a et moron thiom cbs. v cleave. r:ideoro boams violce up close on january 6. >> i was pretty severely beaten. >> r about their harrowing experience, but the committee fanone will appear before is itself under attack. right now made up of just seven democrats and two anti-trump republicans, liz cheney and newly appointed adam kinzinger. last week speaker pelosi rejected two of minority leader kevin mccarthy's picks for the panel, so he pulled all five. today mccarthy took the probe a sham and took aim at them.

>> reporter: some reps want to punish kinzinger and cheney for participating. jim jordan, who pelosi booted ofe panel,s constuentsul tt et the vots in therespective di. my hunch is the voters in illinois and wyoming will probably want someone different to represent them in the next congress. >> reporter: perhaps in an effort to be more bipartisan, cheney will make one of two opening statements at the beginning of tomorrow's hearing. she will follow the democratic chairman. the committee is also expected to rely heavily on video tomorrow including images the public may not have seen before. norah. >> o'donnell: kris van cleave, thank you. president biden made big news today saying that the u.s. military's combat mission in

iraq will be finished by the end of this year. about 2,500 american troops are still in iraq. stay behind to train and assist iraqi forces. u.s. troops in afghanistan will be reduced to just a few hundred by t o month, bringing an end to america's longest war. a close advisor to former president trump pleaded not guilty today to federal charges of illegally lobbying for the united arab emirates. tom barrack who also ran the trump inaugural committee was freed from jail on friday on a $250 million bond, including 5 million in cash. that's actually one of the largest criminal bails in history. we turn now to florida's gulf coast, and that awful outbreak of red tide. beaches near tampa have been littered with dead fish killed by a massive algae bloom that marine scientists say has been worsened by pollution. here's cbs' ben tracy. >> reporter: tyler capella took us out on tampa bay to see what he calls his nightmare. >> gnarly.

oh, man, that's nasty. >> reporter: dead fish everywhere. >> this just goes forever. >> reporter: killed by a red tide, a massive algae bloom that has turned tampa bay toxic. as a fisherman, what's it like to see this? >> oh, man, it's devastating, my worst fears have come true. >> reporter: cappella runs a fishing charter business and is documenting the kill to pressure officials to help. he even covered himself in dead? >> reporter: what's the worst you've seen? >> dead fish as as bomb went of. >> reporter: red tides naturally occur off the coast of florida but scientists say they happen more frequently and humans are making them worse. warming ocean temperatures due to climate change may lead to more red tides and this spring more than 200 million gallons of water from an old phosphate plant was dumped in the bay and could have made this red tide worse. it stretch us 100 miles of the florida gulf coast and moved

into tampa bay. >> now, that is very unusual. >> reporter: michael crosby studies red tides at sarasota's marine laboratory. >> it becomes very difficult for it to get back out again because of the tidal sloshing back and forth. >> reporter: tyler capella worries he's running out of time. are you worried about your livelihood? >> oh, 100%. my fear is this entire region has potential to become a dead >> reporter: ben tracy, cbs news, tampa bay. >> o'donnell: there is still much more news ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news." what's behind the jet fuel shortage that's led to a number of flight cancellations. and the investigation after a home is blown to pieces. and a dramatic rescue caught on camera. what police and bystanders did to save a mother and her baby. ad to save a mother and her baby.

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